Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British still tend to treat him with a faintly hostile embarrassment : as well they might , since for the past four years , his principal message has been condemnation of their duplicity in , as he sees it , backing away from promises to introduce democratic government by 1997 . |
| 2 | More than a third of directors want more summarised information and want to see it in a more comprehensible , graphic form . |
| 3 | ( Or even better , try to fit them into a very short story . ) |
| 4 | As they leered suggestively at her , she would stick a finger up her nose and start scratching it in a very obvious way . |
| 5 | You 've caught me at a very late lunch . |
| 6 | ‘ Now ’ , she said , ‘ they 've told you in a very bald way . |
| 7 | I 've wanted it for a very long time , and it will happen , I promise , but not now , not yet . ’ |
| 8 | Disabled people do not need to deny the individual psychological costs they pay ; rather , we need to identify them as a most directly experienced aspect of oppression , and dispute not the existence of psychological distress in disabled people but the kinds of causal account that are produced . |
| 9 | However clear and well presented reading material may be , there can still be problems in its use , particularly for pupils who need to use it at a very close distance from the eye . |
| 10 | Not if you plan to soak them for a very large fee . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir John , ’ the President said , ‘ you have put me in a most damnably awkward position . |
| 12 | You have fought me since our first meeting and finally you have left me with a rather wet and creased shirt , but I am not offended . ’ |